Award-winning, North Carolina-based writer Randall Kenan died in 2020 at age 57, shortly after the release of his short story collection, “If I Had Two Wings.” He was renowned for his fiction and his ...

“Black Folk Could Fly,” a posthumous book of Randall Kenan’s collected essays, provides a window into his life and heart. Credit...London Ladd Supported by By Kinohi Nishikawa When you purchase an ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Randall Kenan is an Associate Professor for Creative Writing in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with three videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first ...

For most of his life, wherever Randall Kenan went, he saw his name. A writer of both fiction and nonfiction, he grew up in Duplin County in southeastern North Carolina, 13 miles from the county seat ...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Randall Kenan, an author whose stories explored the experience of being Black and gay in the American South, has died. He was 57. The University of North Carolina, where Kenan ...

This sublime posthumous collection of essays from novelist Kenan (A Visitation of Spirits), who died in 2020, offers a moving take on the things that inspired his work, largely Southern culture. Early ...

Kenan's latest, alternating memoir and commentary, is an intelligent homage to James Baldwin's celebrated 1963 The Fire Next Time, and an important book in its own right. Early on, an especially ...

Through a profound analysis of food, music, film and literature, Kenan explores the many aspects of African American life in the American South. In doing so, he puts his own history up for observation ...

Several times a semester, noted authors stop by Vanderbilt as part of the Gertrude and Harold S. Vanderbilt Visiting Writers Series, and this week the series welcomes Randall Kenan, who is also ...

A personal, social, and intellectual self-portrait of the beloved and enormously influential late Randall Kenan, a master of both fiction and nonfiction. Virtuosic in his use of literary forms, ...

Randall Kenan, writer, biographer of James Baldwin, and author of *The Fire This Time* (2007), looks at the life of Baldwin in the context of today -- where we are with civil rights, religion and ...